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180 MAYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.lief to Surgeon-General Walter Wyman, U. S. M.H. S.He immediately detailed an officer, who was placedon a tug, to examine all passengers and to vaccine allpersons coming from the infected islands. Withinforty-eight hours after this inspection service was inauguratedsmall-pox was discovered on board a boatcoming to this city, and after the existence of the inspectionbecame known, the islands, which had beena small-pox feeder to this city, gave us no morecases.In this connection with the subject of MaritimeQuarantine it would be well to state that from authenticsources we learn that the Maritime QuarantineService in Cuba will probably be transferred tothe Cuban hands.Since January 17, 1899, when President McKinleyplaced this important branch of the government servicein the hands of the United States Marine HospitalService, the entire quarantine service of southernports have been aided commercially and from asanitary standpoint by the organization at Cubanports of a system of maritime sanitation, officered bycompetent, practical medical men, and expensive,modern and efficient disinfecting plants were erectedand a new era in quarantine was established on theislands, which, for years, had furnished the SouthernStates 95 per cent, of its yellow fever epidemics.Inspection of vessels, cargo, and disinfection of vessels,have encouraged passenger traffic and have madetrade possible with safety. Disinfection at porfcs ofdeparture in Cuba has reduced the time of detention